Thank you very much. President bermejo and commissioners. My name is jed holtzman. Im a senior policy analyst for 350 bay area working on several projects in the nine county bay area to try to keep Greenhouse Gases in the ground. Id like to thank commissioner ahn and hoyos for this measure. Debbie, the commission, putting this in front of you all and Victor Makras with whom wed be nowhere. When the board of supervisors passed this fossil free sf was born. And it was born as me going alone to the retirement board and getting glared at. Luckily things changed shortly thereafter and its only continued to grow and grow and grow. As youve heard the retirement board has been recalcitrant to say the least. So i want to thank you supervisor avalos and peskin and the staff of the offices for getting us to this point. I dont really have anything to say besides this is an exceptionally common sense measure. We need to put the citys money where its mouth is and i guess to lee hepners point in term
Meetings. Her commitment to the department , herren enthusiasm learning everything a department does. All of the challenges that it faces and her willingness to get in there and try to solve or to advance ordeal with those challenges all the while maintaining her wonderful sense of humor. And because i think this is a job that takes well more than a year to master. Ive been really impressed by the degree to which she has mastered the jobs and the inns and outs of the department and the commission and the confidence she shows now in running meetings with lots of people in the room, compared to when she did it in the beginning i think that shes earned another year in this position. I think she deserves another year in in this commission. I think we will all benefit from having her as our president again. I am so humbled. We need a second. Commissioner. Do you accept the nomination . I do, yes. Thank you. [laughter] gladly. I was surprised. Thank you. Any further discussion . It would be
Its been between 2025 . Commissioner veronese im talking about the losses. Is it possible that we have lost a billion dollars over 10 years . Potentially yes, the amount of writeoffs and adjustments to that degree. Yeah. Youre in that neighborhood. Why are we giving out free healthcare to people if were not looking to get it back. Theres probably a huge number of the population a that is homeless and we just started tracking the homeless related calls and should give us more data on what the numbers probably look like. But this is almost a third of the budget. We have a long wish list of things we would like to have. We wouldnt have to go to the Mayors Office and begging for extra things if we actually had this. This is a third of our budget. Im not saying this is on you, im not accusing you of doing this, but there has to be a better way of doing business where were losing over 10 years, billions of dollars. Like give it to them for free because it should be a service we have or actua
Failing good humor. Particularly at very long meetings. Her commitment to the department , herren enthusiasm learning everything a department does. All of the challenges that it faces and her willingness to get in there and try to solve or to advance ordeal with those challenges all the while maintaining her wonderful sense of humor. And because i think this is a job that takes well more than a year to master. Ive been really impressed by the degree to which she has mastered the jobs and the inns and outs of the department and the commission and the confidence she shows now in running meetings with lots of people in the room, compared to when she did it in the beginning i think that shes earned another year in this position. I think she deserves another year in in this commission. I think we will all benefit from having her as our president again. I am so humbled. We need a second. Commissioner. Do you accept the nomination . I do, yes. Thank you. [laughter] gladly. I was surprised. Th
Gases in the ground. Id like to thank commissioner ahn and hoyos for this measure. Debbie, the commission, putting this in front of you all and Victor Makras with whom wed be nowhere. When the board of supervisors passed this fossil free sf was born. And it was born as me going alone to the retirement board and getting glared at. Luckily things changed shortly thereafter and its only continued to grow and grow and grow. As youve heard the retirement board has been recalcitrant to say the least. So i want to thank you supervisor avalos and peskin and the staff of the offices for getting us to this point. I dont really have anything to say besides this is an exceptionally common sense measure. We need to put the citys money where its mouth is and i guess to lee hepners point in terms of specifying the motion i want to provide an example of the retirement board and the commitments they make and the follow through. So one of the milestones was to divest from coal as a good first step. They